I emerged from the theatre feeling like W. C. Fields, hating children, all children, even my children, because of what those who purport to make movies for them have been doing, both to movies and to children.

The City of Calgary has declared a state of local emergency to deal with the ongoing water crisis caused by the catastrophic break to the city's main water feeder main pipe. Mayor Jyoti Gondek and Sue Henry, Calgary's Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) chief, made the announcement during the mayor's daily news briefing Saturday morning. "The decision to declare a state of local emergency was not taken lightly, and it was done to ensure we are prepared for all eventualities in the drive to have this water feeder main restoration work done as quickly and safely as possible," Gondek said.

The reported birth of a rare white buffalo in Yellowstone National Park fulfills a Lakota prophecy that portends better times, according to members of the American Indian tribe who cautioned that it’s also a signal that more must be done to protect the earth and its animals. “The birth of this calf is both a blessing and warning. We must do more,” said Chief Arvol Looking Horse, the spiritual leader of the Lakota, Dakota and the Nakota Oyate in South Dakota, and the 19th keeper of the sacred White Buffalo Calf Woman Pipe and Bundle. The birth of the sacred calf comes as after a severe winter in 2023 drove thousands of Yellowstone buffalo, also known as bison, to lower elevations. More than 1,500 were killed, sent to slaughter or transferred to tribes seeking to reclaim stewardship over an animal their ancestors lived alongside for millennia.

Conventional wisdom and public policy have long operated on the assumption that, no matter how bad the heat gets, air conditioning will be enough to keep people safe. But the last few years of record-breaking temperatures are shattering that myth.

Prepare to share the air.

The African National Congress and its largest rival, the white-led, pro-business Democratic Alliance, agreed on Friday to work together in South Africa's new government of national unity, a step change after 30 years of ANC rule.

British Columbia has become the first provincein Canada to provide a minimum wageand other protections for people who work through gig-based apps like Uber, DoorDash, Skip the Dishes and Lyft.

The 56% department reduction marks one of the more significant AI-driven staff layoffs for the newspaper to date

The covert effort began under Trump and continued into Biden’s presidency, Reuters found. Health experts say it endangered lives for possible geopolitical gain.

In Gerlach, Nevada, it's a celebration for high school graduation, even if there's only one.

A 126-page report issued after a three-year investigation showed violations of the First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments by the department.

“At what point are we told we’re supposed to just wait for it to get worse.”

Alexander Morris, 53, who is Black and joined the iconic vocal quartet in 2018, went to Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital in Warren on April 7, 2023, with “clear symptoms of cardiac distress.” He had difficulty breathing and chest pain, and he was placed on oxygen, said the federal lawsuit, filed Monday in the Eastern District of Michigan. However, when he informed a nurse and a security guard in the emergency room that he was a member of the Four Tops and had security concerns because of stalkers and fans, they didn't believe him, the suit says. Instead, a doctor ordered a psychological evaluation, and he was restrained for at least an hour and a half, it says. The suit accuses the hospital and two staffers — a nurse and a security guard — of negligence, racial discrimination, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

A huge union win in the Fairfax County schools could be the first of many.

The cast of 'The Blair Witch Project' explain how they say they were screwed out of their share of the profits and why they're speaking out now.

The last known remaining survivors of the 1921 attack by a white mob were hoping for their day in court. A historic quest for justice by the last two known survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre ended with a state court ruling on Wednesday. The Oklahoma Supreme Court affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of their lawsuit, the final legal stop for Lessie Benningfield Randle, 109, and Viola Ford Fletcher, 110. The women, who were small children at the time, argued that the destruction of what was then known as Black Wall Street and the massacre of up to 300 African Americans by a white mob amounted to an ongoing public nuisance, and they sought reparations. The ruling concludes the lawsuit that Ms. Randle and Ms. Fletcher filed in 2020. Last year, another survivor of the massacre, Hughes Van Ellis, the younger brother of Ms. Fletcher, died at 102. The justices ruled that the plaintiffs’ grievances, including any lingering economic and social impact of the massacre, “do not fall within the scope of our state’s public nuisance statute” and do not support a claim for reparations.

During the nineteen-seventies and eighties, a researcher at the University of Washington started noticing something strange in the college’s experimental forest. For years, a blight of caterpillars had been munching the trees to death. Then, suddenly, the caterpillars themselves started dying off. The forest was able to recover. But what had happened to the caterpillars? The researcher, David Rhoades, who had a background in chemistry and zoology, found that the trees in the forest had changed the chemistry of their leaves, to the detriment of the caterpillars. Even more surprising, trees that had been nibbled by caterpillars weren’t the only ones that had changed their chemistry. Some were changing their leaves before caterpillars reached them, as if they’d received a warning. A shocking possibility presented itself: the trees were signalling to one another. Zoë Schlanger recounts Rhoades’s story in her new book, “The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth.” In a research paper that Rhoades published on his findings in the Journal of the American Chemical Society’s series “Plant Resistance to Insects,” he pointed out that the trees were too far apart to be communicating through their roots. This suggested a possibility so novel that Rhoades couldn’t resist an exclamation point in his otherwise cautious positing—the trees seemed to be using “airborne pheromonal substances!” That paper, Schlanger writes, “would change everything, and in a cruel twist, it would end his career. Because back then, no one believed him.”

Denmark has banned several varieties of a popular South Korean instant noodle brand for being too spicy, advising consumers that the fiery food poses a poisoning risk. The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration said on Tuesday that it had recalled the noodles produced by Samyang Foods because their capsicum levels are “so high that they pose a risk of the consumer developing acute poisoning”.

PleasrDAO, the digital art collective that owns the one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, has sued the album’s previous owner, disgraced former pharmaceutical executive, Martin Shkreli, for copying the album and playing it for online audiences without permission. In its lawsuit—filed on June 10 in a Brooklyn federal court and viewed by Pitchfork—PleasrDAO outlines the largely public history of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. Shkreli bought the album in 2015 for $2 million. That same year, he was arrested, and he was convicted, in 2017, of committing securities fraud. Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in federal prison and ordered to forfeit nearly $7.4 million in assets, including the Wu-Tang Clan album. Shkreli was released from prison in 2022, but, while he was incarcerated, PleasrDAO bought Once Upon a Time in Shaolin for $4 million. According to the lawsuit, Shkreli is still beholden to certain aspects of the forfeiture order, including the requirement that he “take[s] all reasonable steps, and bear all costs necessary, to ensure that all the Substitute Assets [i.e., Once Upon a Time in Shaolin] are preserved and maintained in good and marketable condition, and are not damaged, diluted or diminished in value as a result of any actions taken or not taken by the defendant and his representatives.” Shkreli, the lawsuit argues, has violated the forfeiture order by making copies of the album and playing it publicly—something he’s readily admitted to have done, including as recently as the day before the lawsuit was filed when he posted on X, “well @pleasrdao blocked me from their account so i think i will play the album on spaces now.” In the lawsuit, PleasrDAO states, “Any dissemination of the Album’s music to the general public greatly diminishes and/or destroys the Album’s value, and significantly damages PleasrDAO’s reputation and ability to commercially exploit the Album.” In addition, PleasrDAO argues that Shkreli has gained his own unjust enrichment through the promotion of his allegedly illicit Wu-Tang Clan music files. PleasrDAO and its lawyer are asking for an inventory of the files that Shkreli has, the seizure of his copies, damages, and more. In various posts on X, Shkreli has mocked PleasrDAO for suing him and defended his actions. Beginning on Saturday, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin will be played publicly for an exhibition at Australia’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA). A contract stipulates that the album cannot be commercially exploited until 2109, but it can be played at private listening events such as MONA’s.

Ren Faire director Lance Oppenheim and the HBO docuseries stars on George Coulam, the mercurial 86-year-old who created the Texas Renaissance Festival—and won’t let go.